Connecticut western news., 1887-10-12
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS.
Interesting Paragraphs Condensed from Many Redundant Columns.

Interesting Paragraphs Condensed
 from Many Redundant Columns.
 The Attorney General of Virginia and the Commonwealth Attorney are ln jail at Rlch- mond for contempt of court in the tax coupon decision. They will apply at Washington for release on habeas corpus.
 Doctors arc divided as to whether it is dengue fever or yellow fever which is preva- lent in Tampa, Fla
 Miss Emma Abbott created decided sen- sation in Methodist church at Nashville, Tenn, by defending the stage against bitter denunciation of it by the pastor.
 Governor Foraker had narrow escape from railway accident.
 The tug Orient foundered on Lake Erie during storm and her crew of six men were lost.
 Forsyth Post G. A. R. of Toledo has adopt ed resolutions condemning the practice of using the Grand Amy badge for political pur poses. This action was taken to express dis approval of the Foraker badge that is being extensively worn in the Ohio campaign.
 -Alonzo Whyland, aged 70 years, was gored to death by bull on farm near Albion, NY
 Tho Canadian Board of Health has warned the different municipalities to take every pre- caution against the introduction of cholera from New York.
 -W While Dr. J. H. Leach, of Cairo, H., was walking the floor of his office at night a sudden severe pain darted into the right eye, which seemed to jump out of his head. A profuse hemorrhage began and continued all night. An examination showed that the eye had burst, and 1t was removed. His eye has been giving him great trouble since 1862, when its first symptoms of weakness appeared in sudden dimness of vision.
 General Master Workman Powderly de- hyered his annual report at Minneapolis be- fore the General Assembly.
 A meeting of the American Board of Missions was occupied by extended discus sion of whether men who believe in probation after death are qualified to be missionaries.
 The first snow of tho season commenced falling in the Upper Missouri Valley. The ground is now covered three inches deep. Snow fell on the mountains in Montana and the high peaks are coated white.
 A shocking accident occurred in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. The two horses, attached to q carriage in which were two popular young married ladies' became manageable. In the effort to turn them into Q bank. the coachman and his seat were jolted off. Then one of the occupants of the carriage jumped out, escap- ing with severe bruses. The other was instantly killed in cndeavoring to follow her con- panions example, the door of the carriage striking her us she leaped and her neck being broken.
 = Surrogate Rollins, of New York City, de- eitlcs that under the collateral inheritance law tho large bequests by the late Henrietta Lenox to religious corporations art not liable to tax ation.
 An accommodation tzain on the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Railway ran ever a COW near Salem, In,.,- and wes badly wrecked. All the passengers were more or less injured, one of them. Mrs. John Hoppens, of Salem, it is feared fatally.
 -Clem Rawlins a Justice of the Peace at Lebanon, Ky, was shot and killed by Frank Beard during quarrel. Both belonged to good families and were suitors for the same lady's hand.
 A bad smash-up occurred on the Boston and Albany Railroad near Grafton, Mass. The fifth night freight, west bound, Conductor Morrison, ran into the rear of an extra freight, wrecking several cars and blocking both tracks. Early passenger trains in both diree- tions were badly delayed, tho New York owl train not reaching Boston until nearly II o'clock. The accident is attributed to dense fog.
 The Rev. Father McTigfe, Roman Cath olic priest, has been elected principal of the Thirty-third ward public school in PittsburS. It is the first case of the kind on record and causes much discussion in religious circles.
 Premier Nor1uay has returned to Winni- peg and denies that he refused any offers for bonds, but instead, had offered them at very low rates. Members of tho local Cabinet still profess to believe that the boundary road will be built this fall.
 The first suit under the Interstate Con- merce law against an Indiana railroad has been fled against the Indianapolis, Decatur & Springfield road by Wilson < Boys, grain men, They demand 5000 because, as they allege, they are discriminated against.
 -Twenty-two young Crow Indians have re- turned to the Crow Agency from successful raid npon the Piegans, living 200 miles north They brought some sixty ponies they had cap tured. Agent Williamson ordered them all arrested for horse stealing, whereupon they began firing into the agency buildings, but doing no damage. The agent sent to Fort Custer, and soon had four troops of cavalry on the ground. The Indians say they will not re- sist the soldiers, but have out runners to bring all the Crows to tho agency, and trouble is feared when it is attempted to make the ar rest.
 Lee Sam, a Chinaman, was convicted at Buffalo of smuggling opium at Niasara Falls and fined $50. Lee Yung, another Celestial, pleaded guilty of the same offense and got off with $250 fine.
 In the annual football game and cane rush between the Freshmen and Sophomore classes of Brown University, Menderhall, Cap. tain of the Freshmen, received . serious in. jury to his head from the weight of men fall ing on him.
 A child born to Mir. and Mrs. Bohn oi East Dubuque, Ia., is without eyes. A surgi- cal operation failed to reveal the slightest trace in any form of optics. In other respects the child is perfect and unusually strong and we'll shared.